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• 5 steps to delivering high-quality CPR

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  Make sure each of your service’s cardiac arrest patients get the best chance of survival by prioritizing high-quality CPR in training and in practice

• Prove It: Stay and play or load and go?

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  For patients who do not achieve ROSC early, is it better to stay on scene and continue resuscitation efforts or transport to the ED with CPR in progress?

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  A DOPE approach to capnography

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  Bound Tree Medical

  Use this strategy when applying capnography to measure the efficacy of oxygen therapy, especially when troubleshooting

• Reimagining Resuscitation - Episode 1: The Rialto ROSC journey

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  The 4 acceptable pauses in CPR

• ROSC after death: The Lazarus syndrome

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  What EMS providers need to know about the physiology behind the Lazarus syndrome to ensure a patient is deceased before declaring death

• Epinephrine and the Paramedic-2 trial: Is it time to pull our starting pitcher?

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  New research questions whether pharmacotherapy in cardiac arrest is effective at ROSC and long-term survival

• Nitroglycerin: Major actions and misconceptions

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  Nitroglycerin or "Nitro" is a commonly encountered medication for EMS, but it may not work the way you think or do what you think it does

• Medic Mindset Podcast: Thinking about bradycardia

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  How do you assess and manage a patient with bradycardia?

• Hyperoxia: Too much of a good thing

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  Three significant consequences of routine, excessive oxygen administration

• Treat the monitor, not just the patient

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  In some cases, our medical monitoring equipment alert is the precursor to a rapidly deteriorating patient who appears normal

• Serial killers: Acute chest pain

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  Targeting the most common chief complaints and deadly diagnoses to consider in prehospital medicine

• Webinar: Ensuring responder safety while responding to sudden cardiac arrest during COVID-19

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  Looking to safely treat SCA patients during a pandemic? We got you covered.

• A Swiss Army knife on wheels: The benefits of modularity in EMS

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  As EMS agencies move toward multi-function devices, they are poised to save more than equipment costs. Here are 5 benefits that may surprise you.

• Calif. county tells EMS to delay transporting cardiac arrest patients

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  EMS providers will be ordered to wait five minutes after reviving a patient to see if their heart stops again before transporting them

• 5 ways you’re not getting everything out of your cardiac monitor

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  Follow these EMS tips to measure mean arterial pressure, monitor sepsis, rule out DKA and ensure high-quality CPR

• Remember 2 Things: Become a better compressor

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  In this episode of Remember 2 Things, Steve Whitehead discusses the importance of high-quality, uninterrupted chest compressions, and two things providers should remember when administering them to cardiac arrest patients. 

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